On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 19:02 -0500, Andrew Chernow wrote:
> Wouldn't binary payloads be an alternative? NOTE: I may have missed this
> discussion. Sorry if it has already been covered.
The Notify struct has a "char *" field, which can't hold embedded NULL
bytes, so it can't really be binary. But it can't be arbitrary text,
because it has to be encoded in a way that works for every possible
client encoding (otherwise there's a possibility of an error, and no way
to handle it).
Also, the query starts out as text, so we need a way to interpret the
text in an encoding-independent way.
So, I think ASCII is the natural choice here.
Regards,Jeff Davis
